The heavy snow on the River Drum Road came a little suddenly.

Qu Si, who was standing guard on the wooden wall of Daying, was quite uncomfortable.

One is because of the damn cold wind in the east, blowing like a knife on his face, which makes him very uncomfortable.

The second is because the layer of cotton clothing under the armor looks quite thick to the touch, but it is not warm. And it's also bulky, which seriously affects movement.

Lao Liu, who was in the same account with him, secretly opened a hole in his cotton clothes, took out the cotton inside, and found that it was all Luhua cotton that no one wanted.

This kind of reed cotton, not to mention the extremely limited warmth function, but also because of too much stuffing, resulting in too heavy. But if you don't wear it, you can't do it, this winter in the east can really freeze people to death.

If you get a cold again, it will be even more troublesome. The military doctors in the battalion are all service officers, where will they care about the life or death of these pawns?

Lao Liu, who had a fiery temperament, was about to go to the quartermaster to ask for an explanation, but was stopped by Qu Si and two brothers.

As veterans who have served in the Chiwang Army for more than ten years, they have seen a lot of such things, and they can't get any explanation when they go to those quartermasters who are full of brains, and they will make people hold grudges.

There was a young soldier who had a quarrel with the quartermaster because of food, and he was sent by the commander to be a scout. Later, after a mission, he never came back, and the world evaporated.

Anyway, no matter what others do, Qu Si will never upset the officials, he will be discharged from the army next year, but he doesn't want to be unable to even get that severance pay in the end because of trivial matters.

His son is fourteen years old this year, and according to the custom of his hometown, he will reach the age of marrying a daughter-in-law in two years.

Qu Si now wants to let his son marry a wife and have children, and pass on the incense to their old Qu family. Because I don't know when it will be in the future, his son will also have to be recruited by the military department.

If you are caught to work as a coolie, it will be better, and you will have a better chance of surviving. If he was sent to serve as a soldier like him, it would be difficult to say, and he might be in a different place one day, and he wouldn't even have a corpse.

And even if Qu Si retires from the army next year, there is no guarantee that he will not be recruited a second time. A veteran like him is a burden in the Chiwang army, but in other places, he is a sought-after commodity.

Although his legs and feet and strength are a little worse, he is much stronger than those recruits in the execution of military orders, at least he will not turn around and run away when he sees the enemy.

So his greatest wish now is for his son to give him a grandson as soon as possible, and then grow up quickly, and then ...... Repeat the path that their father and son have already walked.

Of course, the premise of all this is that he can leave his life in Dongtianmen, and if he dies, then everything will naturally be over.

Qu Si is still very confident in his ability to save his life, and after being a soldier for so many years, he has a lot of experience in this area. For example, when charging, how to run from the position of the vanguard to become the back row, the knowledge here is very deep.

Qu Si has his own keen intuition about the upcoming big battle, and he knows that this will be the most brutal war in his military career.

In the Chiwang Army, there has always been an argument that the Liang Army is a group of rabble, and the so-called Old Eighth Battalion is just a product of boasting.

The reason why they have been able to occupy Dongtianmen for so many years is purely because the Zhou family, who is in charge of the eastern realm, is too wasteful, if it were replaced by their Lord Chiwang, not only would Dongtianmen have already been taken back now, but it is estimated that the entire Liangzhou is already in Dasheng's bag.

But Qu Si never thought so, although he had never fought against the Liang army, he was sure that the Liang army was definitely a strong army that was not weaker than them, and any contempt would have to pay a price.

For example, now, they have been here for two days, and the large camp that should have been completely built has not been completed, and only the surrounding wooden walls have been built, and the facilities such as horse rejection and arrow towers are all loose and crumbling.

If the Liang army attacked at this time, they would be in big trouble, but as soon as he told the captain about this idea, he was mercilessly ridiculed.

The captain said that they had just arrived in the Spring Valley Plain, and it would be a few days before the Liang army would get the news, so how could they attack at this time? and said that Qu Si was getting more and more afraid of death, and he wanted to treat him well, so he arranged such an errand for him to stand guard in the cold wind.

According to his friends who were close to the high-level soldiers, they set up camp and rested for a few days before they arrived at Dongtianmen.

But they will not attack directly, but find a way to lure the Liang army out and fight in the field, consuming their living force.

After all, Dongtianmen has been operated by the Liang Army for so many years, with high walls and thick walls, and rashly attacking hard, it is undoubtedly sending himself to a dead end.

Qu Si stood on the wooden city wall, holding his spear in his arms, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

It was cold, it was too cold, and the wind and snow seemed to be getting bigger, which made his eyes a little hard to open.

Qu Si tried his best to look into the distance, but at most he could only see things within a hundred meters, and the sky was getting darker, and the visibility was even lower.

There were two groups of rangers before, and they came out of the big camp from the side guarded by Qu Si, and they went to patrol. It stands to reason that they should have come back a long time ago at this time, but they have not been seen until now.

They may have lost their way in the snowstorm, and now they may have recklessly run to the left front camp to the north.

But there is another possibility, which Qu Si can't even think of, that is, they may have died, died at the hands of the enemy.

Qu Si shook his head, trying to get rid of his outrageous idea.

The captain was right, they had just arrived at the Spring Valley Plain, and even if the Liang army received the news and immediately set out, it would be a few days later, and it would be impossible for them to appear here now.

At this time, the young soldier standing guard not far away ran over, he was also choking on the cold, and kept rubbing his hands and covering his ears.

"Lao Qu, you go down to roast the fire, there is me here, nothing can happen. If the captain comes, I'll say you're going to pee. ”

Qu Si glanced at this posterior gratefully, but he didn't move, shook his head and said: "I have experience, you can't see clearly on this snowy day, or I'm here, you go and rest." ”

"Old song, what's so beautiful about this, let's put on a show here, can there really be an enemy to kill? Don't scare yourself! ”

Qu Si smiled bitterly, he also hoped that he was scaring himself, but somehow, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger.

Maybe it's because of the snowfall, or maybe it's because of the two rangers who haven't returned yet.

Suddenly, he felt the wind howling even more, and there was a flower in front of him.

He subconsciously touched his face, and as a result, he touched a hand of sticky blood.

His nose was shot by a stray arrow.

And in front of his eyes, the young soldier who had just called him "Lao Qu" had fallen to the ground, motionless.

The feather arrow passed through his head like a hairpin.

Qu Si covered the blood hole on his face and nose, trying to look into the distance.

This time, he finally saw clearly, in the wind and snow, the black cavalry was rushing towards this side.

He turned around and wanted to shout the phrase "enemy attack", but because his nose was gone, blood kept pouring into his throat, and the little sound he made was quickly drowned out by the wind.

He could only watch the cavalry of the Liang Army, getting closer and closer.